Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-08-10
MANCHESTER NEWS
NuMHRous ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM
OUR SISTER CITY.
Political Council Matters-fhe Street
Railways and Mayo's Bridge
Briefs and Personals.


At the mass-meeting Of the Demo-
Gratis Of Manchester, held at the May
or's- -Courtroom on Thursday, July 2sth,
for the purpose of electing delegates
to represent the city in the Roanoke con-
ventlon-after that business had been
disposed ola resolution was adopt
ed calling upon the Democrats of the
First and Second Wards to elect the
three members Of the City Democratic
Committee to which each is entitled.
As yet no steps have been taken
in that direction. The resolution
of the Roanoke convention author
izing the State Central Committee to
adopt plan OF county and city organi-
zation, it is thought, will have no effect
upon organizations already effected.
When meetings were held in the spring
TO nominate councilmen the Third
and Fourth Wards elected their dele
gates. hut in the First and Sc
cond Wards no meetings We're
held, and therefore no nomina-
tons have been made. The First
Ward is without a superindent, Mr.,
George ". Jones, who filed that posi-
ton for several years, having sent his
It esignation to the old City Committee.
Mr.. ". Z. Li,hgow is superintendent
of the Second Ward.
at this meeting the chairman,
Mr.. David L. Pulliam, was di-
rected to call another meeting
soon after the Roanoke convention
for the purpose OF porfecting the or
ganizaiion Of the party in the city.
This meeting has not yet been called,
ard probably will not be until the
meetings have been held and tic mem-
bership of the City Committee COM
pleted. This is an important mat
ter, and it is to be hoped that with
ont unnecessary delay the meetings
will be called and the work to be done
gotten through with. The Republicans
are at work secretly and earnestly, and
it behooves the Manchester Democrats
that they be buckling on their armor
and entC ring the battle with an united
effort and determination to win.
ONE MEETING CALLED.
After the above had been written and
put in typeit was learned at a late hour
last night that the Democrats of the
First Ward have determined to hold
their meeting at W. ". Crump's Office,
on Hull street between Second and
Third, Friday. Every Democrat is eX-
pectod and urged to be present. \
ward superintendent and three mem
bers of the City Democratic Committee
will be elected.
COUNCIL MATTERS.
4 regular monthly meeting of the
CITY Council will be held Friday nighI
at s o'clock. President Perdue vii
then announce the standing committee.
| for the fiscal year.
At the meeting the Sth Of July thC
new Council-new only in the senst
| that three Of its members were reelected
and one new one elected-was organized
Mr.. Faulconer, from the First Ward
who had been a member OF the body
| for several years, and who was reclectco
without opposition, not having quail
fed within the thirty days allOwe,
by law-thc Council proceeded t.
elect some one to fill the vacancy
resulting in Tie selection of Mr.. join
II. Tallcy. Mr. Talley has not ye
qualified, and the DiSpatch reporter
was informed yesterday-nOt by him
bowever-tbst he will not qualify. N
he is Of the opinion that his election
was largely due to the fact that SOM
of those who voted for him di'
so under the impression that Mr.. Faul
conor did not desire the place longer
The fact Of the business is that Mr
Faulconer, being already member o
the body, lost sight of the fact that h,
had to qualify. Mr. Talley was electe,
the sth Of july and was required t
J qualify in thirty days, as is every cit.
officer required when elected.
STREET RAILWAYS.
The Common Council OF Richmonr
at its last meeting postponed the con
sideration of the streetrailway ordl
nances until the next meeting. Th
Committee on Streets, as previOusl
stated, had reported in favor of allow
ing both the Manchester Railway anC
improvement Company and the Ricl.
mond Union Passenger-Railway Com
pany to lay their tracks and run car
ON such streets as were designated Il
their respective petitions to Mayo
bridge. The former company pre-
sented its petition first, and since tin
presentation Of the latter and tn
favorable recommendation of the com
mittee on both many persons hav'
been led to believe that the companie
are united in their interests in the mat
ter and that either company would b'
satisfied if the other obtained the righ
of way. as but one would build and tha
one would purchase and use the right
and franchises of the other. One OF th'
corporators and directors of the Man
chester company, in conversation will
a Dispatch reporter, said that the com
panies have no interests i'll common
that there is no understanding betweel
the two, and that his company wi
press its claims with every hope anC
assurance of success.
The route of this road is laid dowI
in the charter granted it by the Gene
raj Assembly, and this fact, it i
thought, will be strong point in it
favor. The right of way over Mayo
bridge will have to be granted by tn
Chancery Court of Richmond, unde
the control of which is the receiver
Mr.. j. Thompson Brown, president o
the Union company. 1t is though
there will be no trouble in getting per
mission to pass over the bridge. Tn
gentlemen interested in the Manches
ter company ere anxious to get tn
work under way, and our people ar
waiting very impatiently for tn
| s-bridge line. The Mancheste
people say they will build their roal
as far as they can if not allowed to rul
across Mayo's bridge and along Four
| teenth street.
PosTSiAsTERs.
The postmasters of the senstoria
district composed of the counties o
Goochland, Powhatan, and Chester
field and the city of Manchester vii
meet at Odd d-Feliows' Hall, corner o
Eighth and Hull streets, ct II VI. to
day to elect delegates to the Nationa
| pcs4nosters, Convention. which meet